Born in Syria in 1956, Laila Muraywid graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She has lived and worked in Paris since 1981. A sculptor, draftsman, and photographer, she has also created numerous jewelry collections for various performances (Musée Galliera, Institut du Monde Arabe, Shoman Foundation) as well as for Haute Couture houses such as Jean-Louis Scherrer, Christian Lacroix, and Torrente. Muraywid's rich and prolific body of work is inseparable from the figure of women, their place in society, their freedom of expression, and their emancipation.
Equally comfortable across all mediums she employs, Muraywid unfolds a universe as personal as it is cohesive, where nature and its metamorphoses, the rhythm of time and human finitude, violence, and the sublime all find their place in turn.
Muraywid's work is featured in numerous public collections, including the British Museum, the Musée Galliera, the Institut du Monde Arabe, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Jordan, the Claude & France Lemand-IMA Fund, the Ministry of Culture in Damascus, the Al Mansouria Foundation, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, the Atassi Foundation, the Museum of Lace and Embroidery in Caudry, as well as in many private collections worldwide.
05 April - 25 August 2024
Paris , France
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris invites us to rediscover the diversity of Arab modernities in the 20th century and to renew our historical perspective on artistic scenes that are still little known in Europe. Through a selection of more than 200 works, most of which have never been exhibited in France, the exhibition “Présences arabes – Art moderne et décolonisation – Paris 1908-1988” highlights the relationship between Arab artists and Paris throughout the 20th century.
11 - 30 October 2024
Paris , France
Behind childish and falsely naive games, Laila Muraywid’s works shake us up and draw us into a spiral of existential questions ranging from our founding mythologies to the meaning of the link they weave between us, from the feeling of belonging to the violence it can engender, and from desire to the destruction of its own object. A fresco of our human vanities...
October 2024
14 March 2024
March 2018
24 October 2024
